bradley_stoke
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16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Tom Hanks: War on Terr... · 0 replies · +1 points
I'm really not sure what sort of point you're making.
The Pacific War in the context of the larger context of the Second World War is not even slightly comparable to the "War on Terror".
The first was an actual war between belligerent nations in which the United States was the wounded party and where greater issues were at threat which America was generally rather slow to recognise (for purely local electoral reasons).
The second is something dreamed up by the Bush administration to describe a small handful of extremists who, thanks to the benefits of 21st century society, have an unprecedented reach which included the purchase of flight-tickets and the use of such threatening things as knives and a lot of yelling.
Tom Hanks is an unusually moral and far-sighted man, despite having been in a few rather poor, but popular, Hollywood movies that is somehow outweighed by his good fortune to have been directed by some of the very best Hollywood directors.
Fox Nation shouldn't opine about things it is generally ignorant of.
And these include films, the Pacific war, the world beyond the United States or perhaps the world beyond the ludicrous nonsense propagated by Roger Aisles, Rupert Murdoch and Glenn Beck.
The Pacific War in the context of the larger context of the Second World War is not even slightly comparable to the "War on Terror".
The first was an actual war between belligerent nations in which the United States was the wounded party and where greater issues were at threat which America was generally rather slow to recognise (for purely local electoral reasons).
The second is something dreamed up by the Bush administration to describe a small handful of extremists who, thanks to the benefits of 21st century society, have an unprecedented reach which included the purchase of flight-tickets and the use of such threatening things as knives and a lot of yelling.
Tom Hanks is an unusually moral and far-sighted man, despite having been in a few rather poor, but popular, Hollywood movies that is somehow outweighed by his good fortune to have been directed by some of the very best Hollywood directors.
Fox Nation shouldn't opine about things it is generally ignorant of.
And these include films, the Pacific war, the world beyond the United States or perhaps the world beyond the ludicrous nonsense propagated by Roger Aisles, Rupert Murdoch and Glenn Beck.